The Shell Seekers

by Rosamunde Pilcher
List(s):"Beyond Carp 100"
Category: "Fiction - General"
Pages:582
Year of Publication:1987
Date Added:08/23/2026
Date Read:08/27/2026
Notes:Penelope Keeling is the daughter of a famous painter. She has one of his paintings hanging on the wall of her English cottage, and it's worth a lot of money. She has three children, only one of whom she likes. They all have ideas about what she should do with the painting. Her son is a leech who schmoozes his way through life. Her older daughter is unhappily married and worried about keeping up appearances money-wise. Her other daughter flits from man to man. That's as far as I got. I looked at the last couple pages and saw that she gave her stuff away to people other than her children.
My Rating: 3

Reviews for The Shell Seekers

Review - Shell Seekers, The

I got 108 pages in and had to quit. Nothing interesting happened. The characters were annoying AND boring. This was the paragraph that did me in: She opened the front door and took in the milk, carried this to the kitchen, and stowed the bottles away in the fridge. She cleared the dinner dishes from the previous evening and stacked them in the dishwasher, and then laid the table for breakfast. She put coffee on to perk, found bacon and eggs, a packet of cereal. She returned to the sitting room to straighten cushions, remove glasses and coffeecups, light the fire.

It goes on and on like that. This book was a best seller. How boring must somebody's life be to find this worth reading?
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